Listen: Starbucks ‘Red Cup’ Rebellion—Israel Continues Attacks on Gaza, West Bank
Despite the supposed ceasefire in Gaza, Aljazeera reported Monday that Israeli air raids targeted the eastern portion of Gaza City while Israeli attacks continued in the occupied West Bank.
By Bob Hennelly
Kai Fritz, elected captain for the first Starbucks store to unionize in Brooklyn, explains why Starbucks Workers United union will be holding a strike rally TODAY at 4 p.m. at the company's 325 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn location to demand a fair contract.
Contract talks have dragged on since April 2024. Over 90 percent of the 12,000 Starbucks workers in the union at 65 stores in 40 cities nationwide have voted to go on an unfair labor strike TODAY. They are asking consumers NOT to cross their strike line today in what they are calling the "Red Cup Rebellion" since the job action coincides with the coffee giant's annual Red Cup promotion day to kick off the holiday season.
Despite the supposed ceasefire in Gaza, Aljazeera reported Monday that Israeli air raids targeted the eastern portion of Gaza City while Israeli attacks continued in the occupied West Bank.
The Guardian reports this morning that IDF soldiers in a British documentary aired on ITV in the United Kingdom described a free-for-all in Gaza where legal limitations collapsed and Palestinian civilians were killed merely at the arbitrary whim of individual IDF officers.
To date, the IDF has killed close to 69,000 civilians including tens of thousands of women and children since the Oct. 4 Hamas terror attack that killed 1,200, many of them attendees at a music festival.
In Sudan, the Sudan Doctors Network has reported that the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary is involved in a "desperate attempt" to conceal the evidence of mass killings in Darfur by burning or burying corpses in mass graves.
The RSF has been fighting the Sudanese army since April of 2023.
CNN reported Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita called on President Trump to call in the National Guard into Indianapolis over a spate of local gun violence over the weekend. The Mayor of Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogset denounced sending Trumps and instead demanded stronger gun laws.
"At a time when over 100,000 Indianapolis residents are facing food insecurity, when the cost of goods and services residents rely on is skyrocketing, when families are making difficult decisions regarding paying bills or buying their child a toy for the holidays, we are not looking for 'support' in the form of armed troops in our neighborhoods.
Our current affairs panel: Yale Global Justice Fellow James Henry, Dr. Joe Wilson, labor historian and Rachel Dawn Davis, with Waterspirit weigh in on the latest news. In the B block we get an update from Jordan Coll with the New Jersey Urban News about the upcoming Dec. 2 runoff for Mayor of Jersey City between Councilman James Solomon and former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey.
In our second hour we speak with Dr. Emily Eisner, the chief economist for the Fiscal Policy Institute about the troubling economic trends here in New York City that may have helped drive the massive voter turnout that carried Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to victory.
One in four New York City now fall below the poverty line while in 2024 New York State was ranked with states like Texas and Alabama as having the highest percentage of people living in poverty.
Consider the county by county analysis done by the United Way that tracks the crisis of affordability by zip code that uses localized data on essentials like the cost of childcare, utilities, transportation, food and rent for households that are working. United Way calls this struggling cohort ALICE for Asset Limited-Income Constrained-but Employed. These are households that don't live below poverty but struggle month-to-month to make ends meet.
In the five boroughs, if you add the poverty level to the ALICE cohort, 74 percent of the Bronx is struggling to get by. In Brooklyn and Queens it's 54 percent. In Staten Island, 51 percent face an uphill battle to make ends meet. For Manhattan it's 50 percent.
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